. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo2. The American Florist. 413 Wictors and Peter Reinberg, among others, are cutting chrysanthemums in good f|uantitics. The Chicago Carnation Company is sending Dcaniud some good American Beauty stock. There was a frost October 13 which proved unlucky for unprotected stock outdoors. J. C. Vaughan left October 14 on his fourth trip this season to tlie green dis- tricts. A. Kennicott has been down at Car- bondale for a few days, planting pa;onias. Max Ringier is back at .\mling's after a five weeks' illness. Visit
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo2. The American Florist. 413 Wictors and Peter Reinberg, among others, are cutting chrysanthemums in good f|uantitics. The Chicago Carnation Company is sending Dcaniud some good American Beauty stock. There was a frost October 13 which proved unlucky for unprotected stock outdoors. J. C. Vaughan left October 14 on his fourth trip this season to tlie green dis- tricts. A. Kennicott has been down at Car- bondale for a few days, planting pa;onias. Max Ringier is back at .\mling's after a five weeks' illness. Visitors: A. S. Rice, Minneapolis; Eli Cross and Henry Smith, Grand Rapids: , F. H. Holton, Milwaukee. Boston. A QDARTER CENTURY OF PROGRESS COM- MEMORATED.—CALEDRATION AND A BAN- QUET.—ELABORATE SPEAK- ERS AND OPENS LIVELY. —GOOD DEMAND AND DIMINISHED SUP- PLY.—VARIOUS NOTES.—VISITORS. Friday, October 10, was the twenty- fifth anniversarj- of the establishment of the cut flower commission business in Boston by Patrick Welch and it was observed as a gala day, in a manner befitting an event so full of import to the wholesale flower trade of New England. The celebration culminated in an elabor- ate banquet at the Quincy House on Friday evening, where there were gath- ered half a hundred staunch friends and admirers of the enterprising, sagacious and genial of a self-made man in whose honor they had assembled. Not only was the event of significance as marking the turning of a quarter century of existence for a successful business house but the remarks of the various speakers as they counted the progress of events and contrasted the old conditions with those of to-day, showed that all recog- nized that the occasion also commem- orated appropriateh- the achievement of an honorable position among our com- mercial industries, for a business which from its inception had to endure more than the usual allowance of obloquy and abuse even at the hands
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